> > I was curious that can we develop a generic disk driver that could > handle all the kinds of hard drives - IDE, SCSI, RAID et al? ide_generic sd_mod All there, what more do you want? > I thought we could use the BIOS interrupt 13H for this purpose, > I fail to see a BIOS on non-x86 computers. > but ran into a LOT of real mode / protected mode issues. > Sure. We are not real mode. Ever heard of BIOS limitations? If no, first check out http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html Jan Engelhardt -- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
